The Best Stuff I Read in 2011

December 29, 2011

If everyone else in the world can do a year-end wrap-up, so can I. I have possibly the worst musical taste ever and I don’t watch a lot of TV or movies, but I do read a lot. So this is the best stuff I read in 2011. Books I post tiny book reviews to [...]

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Housekeeping

December 13, 2011

I’ve made a ton of fixes to the blog and to my main web site over the last week, including the broken archive links as well as redirects for links and ancient feeds that have been broken for years. In particular: you livejournalers are probably going to start seeing me again for the first time [...]

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How to Convert an Old Shed to a Chicken Coop in 45,732 Easy Steps (Part Four)

December 12, 2011

(Part One, Part Two, Part Three) So you’re probably thinking, “Hey Laura, it’s been a really super long time since you wrote about that shed/chicken coop of yours. Surely you’ve made some progress that you could write about. Surely the shed isn’t just sitting there in your yard, incomplete, in the rain, taunting you with [...]

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Adopt this Kitten!

October 5, 2011

Update: Squeaker has been adopted! Thank you for all the interest! Regular readers: forgive the slight blog misuse. I was going to do a plain old HTML page for this, but blogs just make things easier these days, and I am lazy. We rescued two tiny abandoned kittens from a feral cat colony living outside [...]

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Stuff I Read Lately, Tuesday 7/26/11

July 26, 2011

Normally I tweet all these links, but I’ve been thinking that I waste too much time on social networks. So, collecting and collating instead. Matt Langer · The 7 Stages of Internet Grief people tweet about dead celebrity people tweet about what dead celebrity meant to them people tweet insensitive jokes about dead celebrity people [...]

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